Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway Review

Audrey, Wait!
By Robin Benway
Hodder Children's, 368 pages
Published 2008

The wait is over for the paperback of this irresistible, fast-paced, hit-worthy debut!

When funny, charming, absolutely-normal Audrey Cuttler dumps her boyfriend Evan, he writes a song about her that becomes a number-one hit - and rockets Audrey to stardom!

Suddenly, tabloid paparazzi are on her tail and Audrey can barely hang with her friends at concerts or the movies without getting mobbed - let alone score a date with James, her adorable coworker at the Scooper Dooper. Her life will never be the same - at least, not until Audrey confronts Evan live on MTV and lets the world know exactly who she is!

- Goodreads.com description

All I can say about Audrey, Wait! is this: Rock On!!!

I LOVE music related books! Like, Breathe, Sloppy Firsts(there weren't that many but I love Barry Manilow), The Last Song. Oh, I could go on. Don't tempt me. But seriously, Audrey is as music obsessed as I am(& probably every other teenage girl in the world) but minus the loud radio thing.

So, Audrey broke up with Evan and Evan wrote a song about it and suddenly BAM!!! His band, the Do-Gooders and even Audrey went famous virtually overnight. The Do-Gooders get to tour in Japan while Audrey got bombed with paparazzi/media/press everyday.

I won this book and am so happy I did. This one is definitely NOT a disappointment. I repeat: NOT A DISAPPOINTMENT. So if you have this on your shelf/iPad/Nook/Kobo/Kindle/Sony/etc or see this in a bookstore, Don't hesitate. Grab it. And get ready for those flashing paparazzi lights.

Fara

Pure by Julianna Baggott Review

Pure 
By Julianna Baggott
Grand Central Publishing, 448 pages
8th February, 2012

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .
Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.

Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .
There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her.

When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.

- Goodreads.com description


Hey there! Missed me? I doubt it somehow;) So I'm back from my vacation. I'll post some photos later. But now... here's some review. Oh. And btw, I'm posting twice or thrice to cover up all those missing days on my blog. So here starts my review...*inhale breath then letting it out*


I have to admit. This is one refreshing book. It made me expand my reading outside of my comfort zone a little more.


The setting was set in a future - not far from us, I think - where the Detonation happened. There were those who was chosen and lived in the Dome. Unharmed. Unscarred. They are called Pure. The Detonation destroyed almost everything. And people who got hit by it will not be the same person anymore. When the Detonation happened while you're holding something or was standing/sitting/etc near to things like glass or even any other stuff(human maybe), it kind of ingrained on you.(I have to admit, El Capitan and Helmud are pretty creepy and a slight touch of gruesome).


This book has more action and less romance. And it kind of started a little too slow for me for the first 30 pages or so. It kind of didn't work with me. Don't get me wrong. There were some parts that got my heart ache and even cry but it's also a little too gruesome for me. But I still have no doubt that I'll read the next book when it comes out.


What I love about this book though was the ending. Sure. People died and all but it's Partridge and Lyda and Bradwell and Pressia that got me to keep reading this book until the end and it did gave me with a kind of satisfied ending.



Fara